Douluo Dalu 3 | Divine Destruction

Laying in rubbing with a punctured lung and nearly crushed chest, Yun Ming couldn't stifle his laughter. How long had it been since he had been damaged, to have been rivaled? Fifty years at least, probably more. The feeling was… refreshing.

'It almost makes me want to…' Glancing up at the sky, the figure of the child masquerading as a devil for the sake of this world lay right where he started. Even as a silver-haired beauty ran around him, attacks of all sorts raining down on the bonafide god, he remained still and disinterested. He wanted to test his mettle against such an opponent.

Unfortunately, he wouldn't get that chance. Breaking free of the rubble, Yun Ming's gaze returned to the Beast God in all his glory. Scales darker than the night sky and golden eyes burning hotter than the sun, it was a glorious dragon. It was far different than the mural in Shrek, it was the unmistakable aura of a dragon king.

As it was, Yun Ming could win easily. He just had to rely on his battle armor domain and spirit rings and victory should come naturally. But he wouldn't do that, not when victory would come with the death of millions. His role was to stall just as Di Tian's was. He was only here to prove that Shrek had done all they could.

'But… maybe a little wouldn't hurt.' Smiling eagerly, a chorus of rings gathered behind the Atlas Douluo. The glow of ivory light filled the air as a single pure white ring danced behind him, golden accents dancing around its form like the wind.

In an instant, the Beast God was forced to the ground alongside every entity in the surroundings as the heavens themselves pushed against them. The thrum of the Atlas Douluo's divine power filled the air as the Beast God clawed himself off the floor.

"...A divine ring." A mutter full of respect and irritation left the Beast God, his golden eyes locked onto the currently divine form of the Atlas Douluo. The heavens themselves bent to his will, space twisted into an unrecognizable state.

"I wouldn't go that far. It's still far from complete." The voice of the Atlas Douluo filled the air, echoing heavily as it came from all over the space he claimed as his own. The black hair of Yun Ming became pure white as the energy of heaven filled his body, healing him in the blink of an eye and enhancing him to levels he had never reached before.

"No." The piercing voice of Di Tian pierced the cloudy heavens as darkness spread from his shrinking body, a muscular man replacing the large dragon. The blasphemous void of darkness clashed against the divine might of the heavens as Di Tian stood tall against his power "Until today I had met three gods. Today I met the fourth." 

Looking at the prideful Beast God with wide eyes for a moment, a sincerely glad smile crossed the Atlas Douluo's features as he clutched his spear. By combining his nine rings with his understanding of the law of Heaven as a medium he had managed to create a divine ring. It was an unrivaled accomplishment, something that wouldn't be necessary should there still be a Divine Realm but that was a pointless argument. Due to those efforts, here he stood as a god.

But Yun Ming couldn't help but bring his gaze onto the God of Devils hovering high in the sky despite his power nearly crushing the Spirit Pagoda itself and forcing even the Beast God to his knees. At this moment, Yun Ming could feel his spiritual power touch divinity and things he could never see became obvious. One such thing was the power of that monster in the sky.

The tyrannical power within Grace Mirchea Luslec shook his mind at even a slight touch, the empty black eyes that befell him nothing in comparison to the crimson eyes he saw within. Yet, Yun Ming could tell that Luslec currently wielded the power of a Hyper Douluo, a far cry from the divinity people could feel emanating from him. 

He was a Hyper Douluo yet he stood strong in the face of a god. Yun Ming had stagnated for the longest time due to the loss of the Divine Realm. He assumed that becoming a god would mark the end of his journey, at least the end of most of it. But that wasn't true. The God of Devils was proving that divinity was not the end all be all. The Atlas Douluo had more room to grow.

"I've heard legends of the Beast God since I was a child." Responding to Di Tian with a smile oozing with excitement, Yun Ming held his spear high above him. The energy of heaven that once clashed against the swirling abyss gathered around his spear. "So don't go ruining my image of you now!" In the Atlas Douluo's hands was the same Atlas Spear as always and yet it hummed with power no weaker than Yun Ming's own, the weapon finally becoming a divine tool.

"Hmph." Scoffing loudly, the darkness surrounding Di Tian sunk into his skin, tainting his skin until it became a void of its own. Space quivered around the arm that personified darkness, the ground quivering under their shared might. "Show me what you've got, God of Heaven."

The rumble ceased for a moment, silence reigning supreme as both simply looked at one another in unbridled excitement. Gravity ceased to exist at that moment, the rubble lifting off the ground before falling again.

Crossing the distance between them in an instant, the swirling void of the Beast God clashed against the divine spear of the God of Heaven. A roar of exertion left them both as they tried to force the other to yield. 

Pure white cracks formed along the swirling void that was Di Tian's arm as Yun Ming's spear was covered in obsidian fractures. The absurd amount of energy that made up their respective weapons began flowing outward, an explosion rivaling the power of a God Killer exploding outward in a fraction of a second.

In that instant, the world lost all color.

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